{"id":"CVE-2012-20004","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2012-20004","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T17:42:59.671Z","title":"K-news plugin for WordPress before 1.1.1 contains a reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to inject script by supplying unsanitized input through the 'ff' parameter.","description":"K-news plugin for WordPress before 1.1.1 contains a reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to inject script by supplying unsanitized input through the 'ff' parameter. Attackers can craft GET requests to /wp-content/plugins/knews/wysiwyg/fontpicker/index.php with malicious 'ff' values echoed into option tags to execute script and steal session cookies. Exploitation evidence was first observed by the Shadowserver Foundation on 2023-10-19.","published":"2026-10-20T21:17:12.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-23T03:16:30.000Z","status":"Deferred","sourceIdentifier":"disclosure@vulncheck.com","cvss":{"version":"4.0","score":5.1,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/M"},"cwe":["CWE-79"],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00269,"percentile":0.18924,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[{"date":"2026-10-21","score":0.00215,"percentile":0.11281}]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.27%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[{"kind":"new","label":"New CVE","at":"2026-10-20T21:17:12.000Z","detail":{"score":"5.1","severity":"MEDIUM","publishedAt":"2026-10-20T21:17:11.907Z"},"summary":"New CVE, medium severity (CVSS 5.1)."}],"references":[{"url":"http://web.archive.org/web/20210213220043/https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54330/info","source":"disclosure@vulncheck.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/vulnerabilities/wordpress/wp-knews-xss.yaml","source":"disclosure@vulncheck.com"},{"url":"https://wordpress.org/plugins/knews/","source":"disclosure@vulncheck.com"},{"url":"https://www.acunetix.com/vulnerabilities/web/wordpress-plugin-knews-multilingual-newsletters-ff-parameter-cross-site-scripting-1-1-0","source":"disclosure@vulncheck.com"},{"url":"https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37484","source":"disclosure@vulncheck.com"},{"url":"https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/k-news-wordpress-plugin-1.1.1-reflected-xss-via-fontpicker-index-php-ff-parameter","source":"disclosure@vulncheck.com"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-20004","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}